Composting toilets

Install a composting toilet, which uses no water. Rather, it allows human wastes to decompose aerobically as air is vented over the waste, which is buried in peat moss. Dried, odor-free compost is removed every few months and is useful as a garden fertilizer. 

What are two advantages the composting toilet has over the flush toilet ... 

Why are there few odors emanating from a properly managed composting toilet ... 

At the wastewater treatment facility, human waste is extracted from the water and typically ends up in a landfill. So why not use a composting toilet and skip the waste of water altogether and send our wastes directly to farmlands rather than to landfills ... 

Composting Toilet - A self-contained toilet that use the process of aerobic decomposition (composting) to break down feces into humus and odorless gases. 

Ecological Sanitation. Composting toilets provide a safe and healthy option for sanitation systems worldwide. It relies on dry biochemical processes that do not require water. Aerobic decomposition of human feces is a viable technology particularly in rural and desert communities where water is unavailable for flushing toilets. 

Paper is broken up into small pieces and re-formed to make new sheets of paper. This takes less energy to do than making paper from trees. However, paper can only be recycled a few times before its fibres become too short to be useful, and the recycled paper is often only good enough for toilet paper or cardboard. But it can be used as a fuel or compost instead. 

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